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Alison Brown
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Since
she began her solo recording career a decade ago, Alison Brown has been acknowledged as one of the top innovators on the five string banjo. She has previously recorded six solo albums, including the 2001 Grammy winner Fair Weather and Grammy-nominated Simple Pleasures.
Who would think a BA from Harvard and an MBA from UCLA would lead an investment banker like Alison Brown down the path to international musical acclaim - with stops at Carnegie Hall and the Grammy Award acceptance podium along the way? Never one to follow the herd (how many Grammy winning banjo-playing investment bankers do you know...?), Brown's style is "...a jazz-classical-pop-folk-Latin mix. [Alison is] a true ground breaker, opening up whole new vistas for an instrument once solely associated with pickin' 'n' grinnin'." (USA Today) Named "Banjo Player of the Year" by the International Bluegrass Music Association, Brown and her Quartet (John R. Burr piano, Garry West bass and Kendrick Freeman drums) take the banjo quantum leaps beyond traditional bluegrass in an exciting program that the Hollywood Reporter describes as "an ear opening pleasure!"
Brown has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and BET's Jazz Central, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Southern Living, Attache Magazine (US Airways inflight magazine), The New York Times and Dirty Linen. She is one of the founders of Compass Records, one of the nation's leading independent labels, and has been a guest lecturer at a variety of universities including Harvard Business School, Dartmouth and the University of Colorado.
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Fair Weather Joined by special guests like Tim O'Brien, Claire Lynch, Vince Gill, Stuart Duncan, David Grier, and others, Brown returns to her bluegrass roots with stunning results. Features the Grammy Award-winning track "Leaving Cottondale," featuring Bela Fleck. CD Price: $15.00  |